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Kevin Durant Leads Team USA to Second Victory
Former UT basketball star and current Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant posted his first double-double of the 2012 London Olympics yesterday, scoring 13 points and grabbing a team-high 10...
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Destinee Hooker Leads Team USA In Win Against Brazil
Four years ago at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the U.S. women’s volleyball team was devastated by a loss to Brazil in the gold-medal match. On Monday, Team USA got its revenge. The two teams met...
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Two Longhorns in London
UT Olympian Ricky Berens, BBA ’10, met up with former UT cheerleader Jennifer McKenzie Welker, ’04, in London. Berens had just won gold in the 4x200m free relay and silver in the 4×100 free relay. “We...
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Olympics Update: Longhorn Athletes Rack Up Medals
As the first week of the 2012 London Olympic Games comes to a close, Longhorn athletes have earned five medals so far—with more sure to come. Here’s an overview of how the Longhorns in London performed...
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Sanya Richards-Ross Clinches Olympic Gold
It’s been four years in the making, but Sanya Richards-Ross has finally closed the deal. When the starting gun fired yesterday in the Olympic Stadium, memories of her bronze-medal performance at the...
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Final Tally: Longhorn Olympians Bring Home 13 Medals
After a giant fluorescent octopus, the Spice Girls, and the Who passed the Olympic torch from London to Brazil in last night’s closing ceremony, the 2012 London Olympics officially ended—and Longhorn...
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Longhorns in London
Emily McKee, BA ’06, BS ’06, Life Member, and Andrew Garcia, BS ’05, proudly displayed the Longhorn flag on their trip to the London Olympics. McKee says that while the pair carried the flag around...
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Olympian Ricky Berens Swings By Texas Exes Tailgate
You never know who will show up at a Texas Exes tailgate. Case in point: former Longhorn swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist Ricky Berens, BBA ’10, swung by the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center...
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UT Commemorates 40 Years of Title IX
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity...
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Sanya Richards-Ross to Deliver Commencement Speech
UT’s Class of 2013 will get some gold-medal advice on graduation day: Olympian and Longhorn Sanya-Richards Ross will give this year’s commencement speech. Richards-Ross was on UT’s track and field...
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Texas Ex Sets American Record at Swimming World Championships
When former Texas Longhorn swimmer Michael McBroom, BA ’13, set a new American record and took the silver medal in the 800-meter freestyle in Barcelona last week, he probably wasn’t thinking of the...
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Revealing the Stories Behind the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Growing up in pre-Nazi Germany, Gretel Bergmann skied, skated, and swam. And she claims to have she learned it all on her own. “Nobody ever taught me anything. I played tennis. I played ping-pong,”...
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Longhorns Look to Make History at 2016 Rio Olympics
More than 10,000 athletes will represent their respective counties at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, set to begin on Aug. 5. And 18 of the esteemed student-athletes and coaches are current, future, or...
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